Show Tempest In a Teapot NEW ORLEANS December 17A special dispatch from Columbus Miss to the Picayune says Several gentlemen gentle-men reached this city this morning from Artesia bringing news of a wholesale whole-sale slaughter of the constables posse near Whallen a small station on the Ohio fr Mississippi Railway near Macon Ma-con Miss On Friday last a negro and White boy got into a fight The white boys father attempted to separate them then he was set upon by a negro boy anu his father and terribly beaten Yesterday the white man swore out a warrant for the negros arrest and Constable Seth Cobb went to the ne gros house to execute it when he was attacked by a number of negroes and beaten He then summoned a posse of twelye menand went yesterday even lrigto arrest the negroes The posse was fired upon from ambushand five were killed outright and six wounded more or Jess seriously The Dews spread rapidlyand I the NEGROES WERE STRONGLY REINFORCED Whallen telegraphed along the linr for help and Mendan responded with about ninetyfive well armed men They were joined at every station and I reaching Whallen marched immediately immedi-ately to the scene of bloodshed The negroes were barricaded and refused to surrender or give up the dead whites At noon the forces were about equal and what is the result no one knows This afternoon news was receivec hero that the negroes have retreated re-treated to the swamps and are stubborn while noncombatant negroes ne-groes are flying to the woods in terror ter-ror There is considerable excitement here and new developments are awaited anxiously Following is a list of the killed and wounded Killed Henry Murray Seth Cobb Tom Nicholson Bill vaughan and Bill Hare WoundedFrank Maury Tom Giles Bob Harper H L Harper John Dew and Goff Thomas THE LATEST Sr Louis December 18A Republic special from Wahaaka received as 2 a msays but one man was killed Constable Con-stable Seth Cobb while two were wounded only one seriously |